Simulstream: Open-Source Toolkit for Evaluation and Demonstration of Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation Systems
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Abstract (arXiv)
Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation (StreamST) requires producing translations concurrently with incoming speech under strict latency constraints, demanding models that balance low latency with high translation quality. Despite rapid progress, evaluation remains fragmented across existing frameworks, which make different assumptions about how systems operate - for example, whether they process continuous speech or short pre-segmented audio, and whether they support output revision (retranslation) or not (incremental). For instance, SimulEval, the most widely used framework, supports only incremental decoding, assumes short segmented inputs, and lacks a native support for system demonstrations. As a result, comparing systems fairly and consistently across studies remains challenging, with no unified solution for benchmarking and interactive demonstration. To address this gap, we introduce simulstream, the first open-source framework for StreamST evaluation and demonstration. It supports both incremental and re-translation decoding on long-form speech, provides fine-grained logging for quality and latency evaluation, and includes an interactive web interface for real-time visualization and comparison.
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- 2020Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation System with Neural Incremental ASR, MT, and TTScited by 12
- 2023End-to-End Evaluation for Low-Latency Simultaneous Speech Translationcited by 10
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- 2026DOA: Training-Free Decoder-Only Attention Policy for Long-Form Simultaneous Translation with SpeechLLMscited by 1
- 2026Benchmarking Speech-to-Speech Translation Modelscited by 0
- 2026A Pocket Offline Model for Simultaneous Speech Translation as CUNI Submission to IWSLT 2026cited by 0
- 2026AlignAtt4LLM: Fast AlignAtt for Decoder-Only LLMs at IWSLT 2026 Simultaneous Speech Translation Taskcited by 0
- 2026AlignAtt4LLM: Fast AlignAtt for Decoder-Only LLMs at IWSLT 2026 Simultaneous Speech Translation Task2 Jun 2026
- 2026A Pocket Offline Model for Simultaneous Speech Translation as CUNI Submission to IWSLT 20262 Jun 2026
- 2026Benchmarking Speech-to-Speech Translation Models2 Jun 2026
- 2026DOA: Training-Free Decoder-Only Attention Policy for Long-Form Simultaneous Translation with SpeechLLMs29 May 2026